American writer Lorrie Moore has achieved recognition as one of
the most powerful storytellers of her generation. She has been the
recipient of several awards and fellowships and her stories
regularly appear in anthologies. Moore regards herself primarily as
a story writer but has also written two celebrated novels. Praise
for Moore centres on her balance of humor and pathos. Dominant
concerns of her fiction include: the lives of postmodern women; the
absurdity and banality of the everyday; the limitations and
possibilities of language.

Born Marie Lorena Moore in 1957, Moore grew up in Glen Falls,
New York. Her parents nicknamed her “Lorrie”. The second of four
children, she recalls growing up in a “house full of …

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